Mars College
An outdoor night screening at the Bombay Beach Arts Center — audience in folding chairs, palm tree beside the glowing screen, recycled-metal fish sculpture overhead

02 MFF

The AI Film Festival.

Films made with AI at Mars, screened outdoors under the desert sky during Mars Electronica. Four editions and counting.

01 Four festivals · 2023 – 2026

Watch every festival.

Every film is made by Martians during the semester — generative video, voice, music, and story — and premiered as one reel at the festival. The full programs are on the Mars College YouTube channel.

2023 AI Film Festival 2023
2024 AI Film Festival 2024
2025 AI Film Festival 2025
2026 AI Film Festival 2026

02 Scenes from past festivals

Screened under the desert sky.

  • Night screening at the Bombay Beach Drive-In, a lit cart and campfire beside the audience · 2023
  • Audience silhouetted against the drive-in screen, a projector running from a fairy-lit golf cart · 2023
  • The illuminated Bombay Beach Drive-In marquee on festival night · 2023
  • Projector and sound desk set up in front of the drive-in screen at dusk · 2024
  • A standing crowd watching a generative AI film at the drive-in, radio tower blinking behind · 2025
  • A glowing guitar-shaped spaceship projected across a pyramid wall at Mars, the audience watching from camp chairs · 2026
  • The 2026 festival under the recycled-metal fish sculpture at the Bombay Beach Arts Center
  • A generative fractal film glowing over silhouetted viewers · 2026
  • The audience watching an animated AI film at BBAC · 2026

Make a film with us at the next one.

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